WEBVTT KATHY: A HOME IN MILWAUKEE BRIMSWITH THE LOVE AND LAUGHTER OFFOUR LITTLE KIDS, JUST HOME FROMSCHOOL.>> I'M 3!KATHY: AGED 3 TO 8, THEY ARE ATESTAMENT TO THEIR 10-YEAR-OLDBROTHER, WHOSE COURAGE GRACESEVERY ROOM OF THE HOUSE.FROM PICTURES TO AN ART PROJECT,TO A PLACE OF HONOR FOR KEVINLITTLE, JR.'S ASHES.>> HE WOULD TURN 13 THIS YEAR. KATHY: TWO YEARS AGO, KEVIN WASFIRST TO SMELL SMOKE.HIS MOM WAS AT WORK. KEVIN'SESTRANGED STEPFATHER IS NOW INPRISON FOR SETTING THE FIRE.>> AT THE TIME, I WAS ALIEUTENANT IN THE HOMICIDE UNIT.KATHY: AT A MEETING WE SET UP ATPOLICE HEADQUARTERS, THATDREADFUL, DARING NIGHT WASREMEMBERED LIKE IT WASYESTERDAY.KEVIN ALERTED GRANDMA, WHOWHISKED HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERSOUT OF THE HOUSE. >> JUST TO WAKE UP AND NOTPANIC.TO WAKE UP HIS GRANDMOTHER.HE COULD HAVE RAN DOWN THESTREET.>> THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS HECOULD HAVE DID AND DIDN'T DO.>> HE PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE. KATHY: KEVIN WENT BACK INSIDE. >> I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HIM GOINGBACK UP WHEN IT WAS DARK, ANDIT'S HOT. KATHY: HIS 2-YEAR-OLD COUSIN,TUNASIA, WAS UPSTAIRS.KEVIN WOULD NOT LEAVE WITHOUTHER.>> THAT HE WAS ABLE TO DO THATONE LAST ACT, PULL THAT MATTRESSOVER THEM, PROBABLY TO SHIELDTHEM FROM THE HEAT, TELLS ME HECOULD HAVE LEFT.BUT HE CHOSE TO STAY UP WITH HISCOUSIN.KATHY: THE CAPTAIN TOOK IT UPONHIMSELF TO NOMINATE KEVIN FOR ACENTURY-OLD NATIONAL AWARD FORSELFLESS BRAVERY.THE CARNEGIE MEDAL JUDGES HAVEHEARD THOUSANDS OF HEROICSTORIES.ONLY A FEW ARE CHOSEN. >> THANK YOU.>> YOU'RE WELCOME. KATHY: KEVIN IS THE YOUNGEST TOBE HONORED THIS YEAR.>> THIS SURVIVED THE FIRE.KATHY: REMARKABLY, KEVIN ISSTILL INSPIRING LOVING MEMORIES,INCLUDING HIS MOM AND HIS DAD,KEVIN SR., JUST TEENAGERS WHENHE WAS BORN, REUNITING.THEY'RE MARRIED NOW>> I HAVE MY GOOD DAYS.TODAY IS A GREAT DAY.YEAH, I GO BACK AND FORTH.KATHY: THEY SEE KEVIN AS THESUPERHERO OF ALL THE JOY THEYHAVE THEIR LIVES.>> IF IT WASN'T FOR KEVIN, IWOULD HAVE NO KIDS, OR A MOTHER.AND IT IS HARD ENOUGH THAT IDON'T HAVE HIM, BUT IT WOULD BEHARDER IF I DIDN'T HAVE ANY OFTHEM. >> UNIMAGINABLE.KATHY: UNDENIABLE IS A BRAVE BIGBROTHER'S LASTING DEVOTION, THEY-- AND THEY BELIEVE THEY WILL

Little boy honored for saving his family from fire

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Updated: 7:33 AM CDT Oct 24, 2017

Two years ago, 10-year-old Kevin Little died after saving his family from a fire set by his stepfather.